Max Weber quotes

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.